Internet
The following is a collection of links relating to web page development and design and also some miscellaneous sites on the web that don't really fit anywhere else except under the category of the "internet" .
XML, CGI, CSS, etc
Some resources to do with XML and web page development that I've found useful when making this site.
CGI Overview
XML.COM - Using The Perl XML::Parser Module
XML.COM - Perl
Introduction to Perl & CGI Programming
How to set up your Home Page on this server
The Common Gateway Interface
Server Response Protocols
My Cascading Style Sheet Reference
HTMLhelp
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Perl XML FAQ
Embedded Markup Considered Harmful
The SGML/XML Web Page
Western Civilizations Guide to CSS
DHTML Colour Picker Application
Apache Web Server
The open source Apache web server. Apached Server Directives. This is great -- I'm currently running it on my home PC to test CGI stuff...
XML Applications
Some starting points for XML development. These were a few I've found useful and interesting. There are surprisingly few (publicly available) examples of web-sites that are generated from XML using something like perl. Considering how useful (and fun) I've found it, I'm a little confused by that.
Vector Markup Language (VML)
The Q&A Markup Language (QAML)
User Interface Markup Language (UIML)
My <webpage>
My homepage is generated from a large XML document. This allows me to alter the formatting easily (considering it has over 400 links) and also extract out "favourite" and "new" links automatically.
Scripting News in XML
This is where I got the idea for the "linktext" attribute.
Sites
This stuff is the kind of thing that only exists on the internet. We'll miss this after the apocalypse...
Internet Traffic Report
Cruel Site of the Day
AltaVista: Translations
Sins of Motivational Posters
The Digital Village
Windows 95 PPP to Monash
Computer Science Modems
The Darwin Awards
Darwin Awards Official Home Page
Seti@home
The Multi-cultural Recycler
The Copyright Website
Squalor.com
DadaDodo
Internet Anagram Server
BigFoot Redirection
Unknown
Julian Sanchez
Hotline Communications Ltd.
Cool concept. Use the infrastructure of the internet to do stuff other than browsing/buying/selling once again.
Cool Javascript
Nifty use of dynamic HTML or something..
Afterlife.org
Who's going to maintain your page when you die?
Internet Junkbuster Proxy
I like the idea of this one -- especially the potential to do other stuff as well as block adds -- strip out javascript window popups for example
Michael Stillwell's Page
Some cool stuff. Smackerels and The Loot always worth a look
Beebo.org
Michael's new site. Getting there :)
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Earth Edition)
This site was really cool for about the first month it was up and running. Then they wrecked the interface. Pretty neat idea none-the-less.
home.luna.nl/~75b
Weird, confusing but very cool. McTm.
Stick figure death theatre
Simple and amusing.
%20Location (Jodi.org)
Bizare. 404 Not Found?
Jamie Zawinski
Interesting chap who wrote Netscape, founded Mozilla.org etc.
WebCollage
This I like.
Cat Scan
Priceless! especially the hands holding the cats in place etc. Half of them look like roadkill! See also Cat Scan II.
Innocent Inanimate Objects
Why americans shouldn't have guns. Though I have to say it looks like fun.
iDRINK - the drink mixing web site
Unfortunately requires cookies, but a great concept and pretty useful too.
Click2Send
A neat, simple and free site for transferring files between machines without using FTP or email attachments.
Domain Names
One day I'll get a domain name -- everybody else does...
HTTP://.com
Damm! Someone got it first :)
Search
Dejanews
Great way to find information on the web. Use other peoples hard work and perseverence.
Fravia's Search
Tips on how to search the web (ie how to actually find what you are looking for) and also where I got the idea for my search page. More complete than mine.
Web Voyeurism
These sites are pretty neat. Basically they allow you to watch, in "real time" , a subset of the searches currently being performed on the particular search engine at any given time. Pretty amusing, both what people are searching for and how they go about doing it. Unfortunately they make them a little hard to use due to "censorship" ... The two best I've found so far are Metaspy and Magellan Voyeur.
The best search engine IMHO. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is especially cool, and automatically takes you to the first hit.
